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Lemon shark2🦈

Photo: Albert kok · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesCarcharhiniformesCarcharhinidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Lemon shark

Negaprion brevirostris (Poey, 1868)

柠檬鲨（学名：Negaprion brevirostris）为真鲨科柠檬鲨属下的一种鱼类。主要分布在亚热带至热带美洲及非洲西部近海浅水中。对人威胁很小。 亚洲常称柠檬鲨的犁鰭檸檬鯊为其近亲。

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≈ 1.6× your weight
Also called
Negaprion brevirostris
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
101 kg
Body length
2.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Lemon shark

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
101 kgrecord 184 kg · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.4 mrecord 3.4 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 25 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 7
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.27
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 4.27 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
101 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Lemon shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyCarcharhinidae
  6. ›genusNegaprion
  7. ›speciesNegaprion brevirostris
Full lineage
  1. superclassGnathostomata
  2. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  3. subclassElasmobranchii
  4. genusNegaprion
All 8 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. genusNegaprion
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In other languages
žralok citronový (cs), žralok citrónový (sk), Κίτρινος καρχαρίας (el), Requin-citron (fr), Limon köpek balığı (tr), tauró llimona (ca) … and 24 more languages

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